Amy McCormac

Air, Oil on Canvas, 18x24in., 2024

Why Don't You Listen, Oil on Canvas, 72x48in., 2024

A first grade girl in a yellow dress clutches her mothers’ leg while looking at her beseechingly. The mother in a blue work shirt and dark pants, has arms crossed and stares angrily in the distance. They are in a kitchen with a rug and table on the left and counter with tea on the right. The floor is bright blue and green floorboards that angle toward the viewer. A tabby cat pauses to take in the scene.

Disconneted, Oil on Canvas, 48x36in., 2023

We see the legs of a woman vacuuming a chartreuse carpet while smoking a cigarette. The vacuum is a bright red globe canister, and the woman is pushing the floor utensil under the legs of a green Saarinen womb chair. Across the cord of the vacuum is a baby sleeping on its tummy, in a pink onesie, a pink toy rubber elephant nearby.

Regularly Scheduled Programming, Oil on Canvas, 48x36in., 2023

A pale seated man with a black crew cut and black horned rimmed glasses, with a concerned expression, a Manhattan on the rocks in his hand extended toward a woman seated next to him. He wears a maroon polo and dark green pants. The woman faces the green glow of a tv, her right hand holding her Manhattan and a cigarette. She is exhaling smoke and rigidly looking forward, closed off from the man, and the i newborn in a pink onesie, crying furiously, lying across her left arm. She wears a bright sea green t-shirt with purplish horizontal stripes, and wears purple pants. Her reddish brown hair is cut in a short shag. The couple is tightly compressed into the lower right corner of the composition, against a dark green background.

Permanent Damage, Oil on Canvas, 48x36in., 2022

A seven year old girl with bangs and shoulder length brown hair, in a red plaid white collared school dress, is crying with her arms in prayer toward her mother. Her mother has her back to her daughter and is painted all in blue, in a striped shirt, and with her arms crossed. A ten year old girl with long black hair stands just behind her sister, her fists pushing into her cheeks and her eyes wide with fear and distress. She wears a purple sweater and purple striped pants. A cold blue veil emanates from the mother and envelopes both the girls. A doorway is behind the older sister.

Response, Oil on Canvas, 48x48in., 2022

A woman with bangs and a brown ponytail, painted in shorts and a reddish shirt, in reddish skin tones has her left fist clenched and is stepping in from the left side of the frame, yelling and pointing at a man seemingly asleep in a chair. The man is painted in cool tones and is leaning on a bright sea foam patterned pillow, with his arm under his head on the pillow, and his other hand tucked between his legs. He wears a blue shirt and blue jeans and has shoulder length grey hair. The chair he is sitting in has a metal frame, and grey leather cushions. They are in a falsely bright sun in an outdoor space, with a yard and trees against a lavender house, and a bright green surface below. The shadows from the woman cast on the ground add to her threatening posture.

The Motherlode, Oil on Canvas, 72x48in., 2022

On a superhero yellow background a woman kneels in white pants, using her left arm to steady her. She wears a green shirt and a sad and weary expression as she looks at the burden on her back. First there is a seven year old girl with her arms tightly circled around her mother’s head. She has dark blond hair and wears a fuschia patterned summer dress, flip flops, and a sad expression with closed eyes. Draped over both the child and her mother is a limp man, arms dangling, in blue pajamas. The woman on her knees holds one of the mans arms mid forearm. His eyes are closed, he has salt and pepper hair, and he is an unhealthy color. Arching over his back is a thin teenage girl leaning back in a gymnastics pose with arms extended over her head. She wears a black bralette and leggings, a high pony, and her eyes are closed. Lying sideways atop the gymanst’s stomach is an elderly woman in a lavender paisly blouse with jewelry and a cigarette. She has a faded bob hairdo and her eyes are closed. The woman at the bottom of this human tower is clearly struggling to bear it.

Revenge Drinking, Oil on Canvas, 48x36in., 2021

A seated woman painted in blue tones, with her arms crossed and furious expression looks off to her left. She has dark shoulder length hair and bangs parted in the middle. The whites of her eyes are red. She is wearing a blue paisley shirt and is seated at a round cafe table. There is a glass of red wine on the table and a half empty bottle. Some wine color stains her lips. The background is black, and some blue aura emanates from her.